Women Work ‘A World of Smoke’ in the Ivory Coast – The New York Times

As Joana Choumali learned when she began documenting the women in 2013, men are happy to sell wood, San Pedro’s largest export, and let women keep the filthy, back-breaking work of making charcoal. Ms. Choumali, a freelance documentary and fine art photographer from Abidjan, the nation’s capital, was on an assignment in San Pedro when she first spotted the phenomenon.